Welcome dear readers to the latest issue of the Weekly Gazette! Here in the Gazette, we give you the news in brief of what occurred in the past week as well as provide any news happening in Save-Point itself

Official Area

Announcements and Updates

Tigurus Fay only recently discovered that Creation Asylum has begun to fade, but wished DerVVulfman good fortune in his new Moderator duties. It wasn't long before DerVVulfman pounced upon a new spammer wishing to intrude.

There have been more Gains with the Asylum Archives development as DerVVulfman not only secured the last of the salvagable unsorted RPGMaker XP scripts onto his Hard Drive, but began uploading them. As of now, roughly 25% of the unsorted scripts have been archived while being cheered on by Siletrea.

Occasions

It looks like a new member named MyoBlitz showed up so he could find and download a special detection script for RPGMaker XP.

After the death of George A. Romero, the creator of "Night of the Living Dead", thoughts of zombies were What's on the Mind of lestat3179. But death looms for the image hosting of many as Bounty Hunter Lani, like Ahzoh and many others, are furious that Photobucket changed their terms of use and began charging members for image hotlink services. Meanwhile, the summer heat continues, though wearing black doesn't affect Melana as much as it does KDC.

Sometimes, you need to get out and relax with some music or watch a show. But if you do and think it is worth sharing, perhaps you would like to let others know What are YouTubing. This week, Bounty Hunter Lani played some tunes, be it guitar rock or some Metal. lestat3179 revisited AD Vision's dubbed version of Martian Successor Nadesico while TsunamiJurai returned to Perfect World in the forum of a shape-shifting Kitsune. And DerVVulfman played a game of dominoes and found a new gaming feature he wants to use.

Games Development

Development Discussion

For those using any of the RPGMaker engines in full screen, they may not have bothered to notice if other applications could still be active and functional. Yet that was What's Up with our fellow RMer, Melana as she ran RPGMaker XP in full screen on one monitor while trying to run her web browser on her second monitor at the same time. Zexion suggested the use of a system to allow her to use RPGMaker VXAce in her gaming project as Ace itself allows other Windows applications to function, but Melana noted that the XP/VXAce software suggested conflicted with so many of her custom scripts.

Upcoming Projects

Though KDC is relying on hotspots for his updates in Save-Point, the development and evolution of Memorie continues. Now in the same universe as his younger brother's story, KDC has added a few more features even while he needed to rely on an earlier backup of his project.

General Support

Wishing to craft his own, Rayzak inquired about How to link autotiles together. DerVVulfman suggested a simple route which used an already existing autotile, masking out areas in a cookie-cutter like fashion. Not long after, Rayzak determined that he had to pay attention to the top-middle section of the autotiles.

Code Support

After determining what Diorm wanted when he asked to have Special Items shown in a Separate Item Menu, DerVVulfman wrote a patch script which altered the way the default Item Menu worked rather than writing a whole new menu. Though Diorm said he received an error message upon use, DerVVulfman proposed the error could be based on where his patch was placed or that some other script could be interfering with its function.

Material Development

Scripts Database

With all the work that he performed upon his latest system, would one think kyonides ever be truly satisfied until his creation worked with all three Ruby-scripting RPGMaker engines? Surely not. As such, he worked upon KUnits until it worked with RPGMaker XP, RPGMaker VX and RPGMaker VX ACE. Besides porting to the other engines, he added features so one can examine the information of any prerequisite team members. And as an added bonus for RPGMaker VX users, he enhanced the engine's dash system for no extra charge.

Meanwhile, DerVVulfman determined why his latest script, Big Maps, did not work well with Near Fantastica's 'Dynamic Maps' system, and wrote a simple patch to rectify the issue.

Well, that's it for this week.

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PROSPECTIVE GAZETEERS!

If you are the creator of a thread in Save-Point, you have the option of sending/writing your own entry into the Gazette. The Gazette accepts write-in announcements (which will be doublechecked). Likewise, the Gazette would welcome other content such as a comic-strip series, ongoing story arc, or the like.

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